Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Labor Party has managed to keep a foot in both of Labor's camps. Of the 250 unions affiliated with it, about 40% are A. F. of L. Executive Secretary of the A. L. P., whose campaign headquarters were a suite of rooms in the West Side's smallish Claridge Hotel, is pince-nezzed, 39-year-old Alex Rose, vice-president and secretary of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers, an A. F. of L. union whose president, Max Zaritzky, is personally friendly to C. L O. State Chairman is Vice President Luigi Antonini...
...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
...important military action by either side had taken place on Nov. 7. Preliminary to the great Franco offensive, Rightist bombers came meanwhile down from over the mountains to blast the living daylights out of Catalan Lerida, later Barbastro, killing some 300 civilians, in the process. It was useless to pretend that the towns lacked military importance. Lerida, a key town in the Leftist defense of Barcelona, was the temporary headquarters of Leftist Commander General Sebastian Pozas, and Barbastro not only contained many Leftist ammunition dumps but was last week an important Leftist base. One of Lerida's bombs landed...
...engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges come in clips of five, one in each clip painted with phosphorus to burn as a tracer. Beside them are two .30 calibre guns and on each side of the centre fuselage two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns sweep the skies from the rear...
...motor cars purred out of Vatican City one morning last week, crossed the Tiber and rolled through the streets of Rome without attracting any particular attention. When they drew up at the Church of St. John Lateran at the opposite side of the city, attendants lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between...